February 6th, 2023 is a celebration day, or should we say week, among gamedevs worldwide. It is when Steam Next Fest begins. Developers from all around the world are participating in a fight for the most precious resource of modern society - the attention.
You adding their game to the wishlist is a dream come true for these people.
What better way to encourage you to wishlist their title other than letting you taste it?
It is exactly what Space Fox Games, the developer of RIN: The Last Child, will try to do, by letting you play the demo of their game.
Key differences between the release version and the Steam Next Fest Demo of RIN: The Last Child
Basic spells
Monsters won't die by themselves.
In the demo you get:
- Phantom Blades,
- Magic Missiles,
- Impulse,
- Sentinel,
- Shooting Star.
The release version will give you a full arsenal of 18 spells including Drain Life, Void Prison, or Blizzard.
Enhanced Spells
With a total of 18 Enhanced Spells, your foes get to taste 4 of them:
- Revitalizing Strikes (enh. Phantom Blades),
- Triple Missile (enh. Magic Missiles),
- Shielding Totem (enh. Sentinel),
- Sphere of Energy (enh. Shooting Star).
Enchanting runes will make your spells even stronger!
Enchants of Death, Life, Space, Time, Explosion, Lightning along with Runes of Power, Deflecting, and Cunning make up for a total of 7,776 combinations!
And Enchant of Explosion is the only one not available in the demo.
Spellcrafting Ingredients
There are going to be 5 Aspects:
- Aspect of Life,
- Aspect of Death,
- Aspect of Space,
- Aspect of Time,
- Aspect of Matter.
The demo allows you to use Aspects of Space and Time.
Locations
In the release version RIN will slay countless creatures in five locations:
- Final,
- Void,
- Overgrowth,
- Time,
- Space.
In the Steam Next Fest demo you begin in Final, and the game will let you complete 100% of tutorial, and 35% of Hub, as well as 15% of Void and Overgrowth.
Skills
RIN has a total of 13 skills to learn. During the demo you get to use 3 of them:
- Fading,
- Dash,
- Meditation.
Release version will let you learn e. g. Etheric Grab, Death Spikes, or Ghost.
There are also 11 Skills upgrades, none of them available in the demo.
The enemies
Now you need something to smash! There will be:
A fight with Shildar Mini Boss ends the demo.
Will it be enough for you to taste the game? Are you going to want more? Let us know, and in the meantime here’s the link to the game’s Steam Card.
